Welfare reform again
by Cal Thomas, Tribune Content Agency
Apr 17, 2018
2 minutes
When President Bill Clinton the welfare reform act in 1996, which he negotiated with then-Speaker Newt Gingrich, the left claimed people would starve. They didn't. According to the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, between 1996 and 2000, the for single mothers increased from 63 percent to 76 percent. In addition, the overall poverty rate over the last half-century. Many able-bodied people who once relied on a government check found jobs and started earning a paycheck.
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